VIP Newsletter March 9, 2009
Cut a Rug Retreat March 20-22!Come Cut a Rug at our Spring Retreat!
VIP Spring Retreat: Come Cut a Rug!
VIP welcomes all of you to "Come and Cut a Rug" with us on March 20, 21st, and 22 for our Spring Retreat.
You need some "me" time with your friends to pamper yourselves and to work on your creative projects. Enjoy an upscale experience with hotel amenities, ample workspace and lighting, delicious food from our favorite Executive Chef, darling make and takes, and oodles of fab goodies and prizes! The generous prizes even include a Grand Prize of a Silhouette Die Cutting machine!
Pamper yourself and scrapbook in comfort. Join us at noon on Friday, March 20th and crop through our special weekend until 5 pm on Sunday, March 22nd. Accommodations on site at the Rochester Ramada Inn, parking is free and shopping is conveniently right across the street. The first ten to reserve a spot get an additional $10 off their Ramada overnight stay. Cost $145 Gotta work that weekend? We have had numerous requests for a one-day retreat option. Give us a call and you can attend our fantastic retreat on the one-day option too! Join us! Call VIP at 507-281-2031 for retreat spots and the Ramada at 507-289-8866 for lodging. More Information at our website under Retreats http://www.vipscrapbook.com/node/2401
25% off all St Patrick and Irish items!
It's your lucky week! Take 25% off any Irish or St. Patrick's Day items now through March 17th. You will want to pick up a little green and SAVE a little green too! We have dozens of options for scrapping the little leprechauns at your house and your card making for St. Patties! 25% off all St Patrick's Day or Irish paper, embellishments, or St Patrick QuicKutz dies.
There's more!
It just keeps rolling in...and that is a good thing! Boxes and boxes of products mean lots and lots of NEW goodies for you! Come and see all the product in every department! We have Tim Holtz embellishments, Ranger inks, new sports papers and embellishments,7 Gypsies, QuicKutz Home decor cutables, St Patrick's items, and dozens of May Art's luscious ribbons. Read on and see why we are SO excited for this week's new product lines!
New May Arts specialty ribbons!
May Arts ribbons are fantastic additions to any of your paper-crafting items! Luscious colors and textures add so much to any project. From layouts to mini albums to cards, Make it with May Arts!
New QuicKutz Home Decor cutables at VIP!
Use cutable magnet , plastic, cork, vellum, vinyl rolls, and chipboard sheets with your QK Handles and Revolutions! Add a fresh breeze to your home decor with your own QuicKutz handmade die cut shapes. Make holiday window clings, name magnets and other home decor using your new Spring QK Dies--also new!
Tim Holtz products rock!Tim Holtz products are IN!
Not only are Tim Holtz products and techniques super "in" and trendy, they are IN STOCK at VIP! Stop and see the latest embellishments like metals, metal mixatives, pins, clips, knobs, clock pieces, grungeboard, and salvage stickers. We also have acrylic stamps coming soon!
We also have all the tools you need to learn how to make Tim's distressed style work for YOU! Non-stick work mats, alchohol inks, paint daubers in 24 colors (WOW!) distressed inks in 12 colors, masks, blender tools, misters, and blending solution! These also work wonderfully with our 7 Gypsies supplies like hinges, knobs, clips, and acrylics.
New Graduation, Baptism and Spring Products this Week
Check out the NEW baptism, Easter, graduation, spring, and St Patrick papers and accents. Neutral white, cream and black graduation papers and embellishments go with ANY school color scheme. Capture the essence of Spring with your choice of themes in lovely colors.
Scrappin Sports Product this Week at VIP!
Scrappin Sports items are in! Stewartville albums are in! Stamping Station school items are in! Come and get them while you can! These sports papers are flaming hot and they are almost sprinting out the door by themselves! Beat the run on these items and get them now for your high school open house books.
Get Your Scrap On! Donate a Dr Seuss book!Get Your Scrap On Crop Dr. Seuss Style March 28
Get Your Scrap On with Dr. Seuss style! Join us for our Get Your Scrap On Crop March 28th. Attend the crop and donate one new or used Dr. Seuss book --and receive 30% off any one item!
Join your friends at VIP for the Get Your Scrap On Crop. In honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday this month, bring any Dr. Seuss book and it will be donated to a children's reading program. Schedule time to scrapbook with us. You need some dedicated time to work. You deserve some FUN! You know the atmosphere will be creative! Join us Saturday March 28th from 9am-12pm for $25. Fabulous lunch, supper and snacks included. You know it will all be delish! Sign up now!
Note: Offer excludes 30% off die cutting machines and value priced items.
New Ideas are Blooming this Week at VIP!
Monday March 9th All Day Free Scrap. 10am-9pm
Tuesday Mar. 10th Free Scrap 10am-9pm
Tuesday Mar. 10th Just the Basics 6:30pm $5
Wed. Mar 11th Beyond the Basics 1:00pm $12.50
Wed. Mar. 11th Oh Baby - Sweet Dreams 6:30pm $12.50
Thur. Mar. 12th Just the Basics 1pm $5.00
Thur Mar. 12th All Day Free Scrap. 10 am-9pm
Thur Mar. 12th Innocence 6:30pm $12.50
Friday Mar. 13th Free Scrap 10am-5pm
Friday Mar. 13th Funtastic Friday Crop with Dinner 5pm-12 midnight $8
Saturday Mar. 14th Window Pane Class 11am $45
Sat. Mar 14th All Day Free Scrap 10am-5pm
Sat. Mar 14th free Make N Take while supplies last
Sunday Mar. 15th All Day Free Scrap 12 noon-5pm
Sunday Mar. 15th Genealogy: Grandmother and Grandfather (mother's side) 1pm $12.50
Monday March 16th All Day Free Scrap 10am-9pm
Mon. March 16th Military Friends 5-9pm
Sign up Now for March Genealogy Classes!
Make your personal heritage come to life. Grandmother and Grandfather is the March genealogy theme in our year-long series.
Sign up for ONE of the following March dates for the class:
Choose either March 15th, or 22nd. Class begins at 1pm. FREE WIRELESS allows you to research on the laptop FREE! Come in and see the page sample up in the store and sign up for the year long series with us here at VIP.
We do have a few past month's class kits available as TO GO kits again now. Learn genealogy research skills and how to research your own family tree with us each month. Cost $12.50
Funtastic Fridays in March--Come to the Funtastic Friday Crops!
March 13, 2009 from 5pm to 12 midnight Dinner included. $8
March 20, 2009 from 5pm to 12 midnight Snacks included $5
March 27, 2009 from 5pm to 12 midnight Dinner included $8
Earn a Funtastic Friday Bonus Crop! Prepay for your Funtastic Friday crop when you call to sign up and we will keep track for you. Earn a bonus crop FREE after only SIX prepaid signups!
SilhouetteSilhouette Machines for $149.99!
The Quickutz Silhouette Digital Craft Cutter is an excellent tool to have in your work space. The Silhouette connects through a USB port to your computer. It uses any downloaded True Type fonts, TTF dingbats, or QuicKutz software designs along with your computer to digitally transfer information to the machine and cut them out. You open a program, select the QK design, ttf dingbat, or ANY ttf font that you have in your computer. You edit it on screen and the Silhouette cuts it for you. The possibilities are endless. The Silhouette comes with software, cables, blades, and a cutting mat. 50 image design downloads are also already included.
Normally these cutting machines are $369.99 but we bring you the deals here at VIP! You can have your Silhouette machine for less than half price at $149.99! Hurry though, these $149.99 machines are going FAST!
IN STOCK: The NEW Silhouette machines are here! Includes an LCD screen, new design portability, software upgrades and more. Only $299.99 at VIP!
Silhouette Updates: New Online Store for QuicKutz Digital Designs
VIP and QuicKutz is happy to announce the opening of a brand new online QuicKutz store for digital designs. With faster browsing, enhanced searching, sleeker design and more compatibility, this store is better than ever. It offers thousands of digital designs to choose from, with new shapes added all the time, that you can download directly onto your computer at any time! In order to access the new store you will need to download a small update found here:
http://www.quickutz.com/qk2/silhouette/support.aspx
Do you have an older Silhouette? Silhouette offers a free 2009 download of updates at the same link for your standard Cricut of new drivers, software and store helps.
http://www.quickutz.com/qk2/silhouette/support.aspx
For the first time, VIP is also offering subscriptions to download digital designs for your Silhouette.
Subscriptions
Free Account: Download digital designs anytime and pay as you go; each design is around $1.99 each (new lower price!).
Limited Subscription: $19.99/ month. Download up to $30 worth of digital designs a month; 1 year subscription. Unlimited Subscription: $29.99/ month. Download as many digital designs as you want with no monthly limit; 1 year subscription.
USE your VIP Scrapbook retailer code and get 50% Off Subscriptions!
We have partnered with Quickutz to offer our customers a 50% off discount to either subscription program above. Just follow these directions!
1. Go to the online store and sign into your account.
2. Choose a subscription plan by clicking on the button.
3. Fill out the required information.
4. When prompted, type in the promotion code: VIP
Marvelous Mondays! Use that 40% off Coupon at VIP
Marvelous Mondays are here! That means you can use your current Michael's 40% off craft supply coupon HERE at VIP!!! Now that's exciting news! Get 40% off the price of one craft item when you turn in your original newspaper Michael's coupon at our store. 1 coupon per family per day. Note: excludes Cricut machine, Silhouette machine, QuicKutz handles, Slice machine, and other value priced items. Marvelous Mondays were made just for YOU! Use your current Michael's coupon at VIP every Monday!
School papers are in!Plan your High School Albums early!
NOW IN!! Scrapbook those high school memories.
High school papers and embellishments and albums are now in stock! Get them while supplies last. Custom school albums in stock include John Marshall, Century, and Mayo. Any other school albums can be easily ordered by request.
High school custom papers in stock include 15 local high schools:
Albert Lea, Austin, Byron, Century, Chatfield, Dover Eyota, John Marshall, Kasson Mantorville, Lourdes, Mayo, Owatonna, Pine Island, Plainview Elgin Millville, Stewartville, and Winona.
Don't forget, VIP also offers a great monthly series of high school layout classes so that you can get your teen's school album done in record time! See our Calendar for all our class offerings on the website:
http://www.vipscrapbook.com/event
Tuck a Gift Certificate in your Treat Basket!
Ask the Easter bunny to stop at VIP and get you a treat! Gift Certificates always fit!
Gift Certificates are sure to please anyone and they tuck nicely into an Easter basket!
VIP Gift Certificates are the perfect present. One size fits all. Everyone loves them! Give your scrapbooking friends the memory-keeping gift that keeps on giving. Buy VIP gift certificates!